Reappraisals in Renaissance Thought

Charles B. Schmitt, Charles Webster

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781040248904
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

This third collection of Charles Schmitt's articles complements the previous two and consists largely of studies published in the last few years of his life. It therefore contains his mature reflections on central issues in the fields of Renaissance philosophy and science, as well as important new research findings. The main subjects are Aristotelianism and Scepticism, and the history of medicine and natural philosophy. Some articles assess the place of traditional elements in the work of major scientific innovators, such as Galileo or Harvey, others make available new sources of documentation and show the significance of writings others had not deigned to look at. Charles Schmitt's insistence that Renaissance thought should be reconstructed in terms faithful to the value systems of the period also led to an increasing interest in the socio-economic context of philosophical speculation, reflected here in the studies on the University of Pisa in the 16th century.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Series
• Contents
• Preface
• I Pseudo-Aristotle in the Latin Middle Ages
• II Some Notes on Jacobus Dalechampius and his Translation of Theophrastus (Manuscript: BN. Lat. 11,857)
• III The Correspondence of Jacques Daléchamps (1513–1588)
• IV An Unknown Letter of Jacques Daléchamps to Jean Fernel: Local Autonomy versus Centralized Government
• V Harvey and M.A. Severino. A Neglected Medical Relationship
• VI William Harvey and Renaissance Aristotelianism. A Consideration of the Praefatio to De generatione animalium (1651)
• VII Aristotle among the Physicians
• VIII Philoponus’ Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics in the Sixeenth Century
• IX The University of Pisa in the Renaissance
• X The Studio Pisano in the European Cultural Context of the Sixteenth Century
• XI Galilei and the Seventeenth-Century Textbook Tradition
• XII Recent Trends in the Study of Medieval and Renaissance Science
• XIII The Rediscovery of Ancient Skepticism in Modern Times
• XIV The Development of the Historiography of Scepticism: From the Renaissance to Brucker
• XV Towards a History of Renaissance Philosophy.
• Index